I am now tying flies in ernest for the 2010 fly fishing season, so I thought I’d share one of the flies I’ve been tying with a little twist.
This pattern is my “Korn’s Spent Wing Caddis” a great fly and one of my favorites. I’ve been tying hundreds of them in tan and olive green for Parks Fly Shop in Gardiner, MT. We fish it as a trailing fly tied about 12-18 inches behind a dry fly, like an X-Caddis or a hopper. But while I was tying all those flies I got thinking about last fishing season and how well we did catching fish on pink bodied hoppers. So the next thing I know I’m tying this variation.
Why not pink? Pictured is my prototype with pink body and head, I’ve named it the “Pink Cadillac Caddis”. Think it will catch fish? I do, but then again, I might just be a little “spent” from spending too many hours at the tying bench!
Korn, I tied a pink caddis some years ago, i live on a very heavily pressured tailwater, c+r. Late summer the fish have seen everything and most wont even look. Till they saw the pink. I truly believe they took it because they had not seen one yet. The dragfree drift would not hurt either
Pink has been used for fly pattern long before Carter had Pills (boy that sure dates me)!
Pink is a good color for the body on Crayfish flies! Pink nymphs, pink soft hackle wet flies, pink wet flies, pink streamers, pink emergers, pink terrestrials and pink dry flies. Get into the pink, and catch some fish.
That appears to be a certain winner. Got me to thinking, since I saw this fly first discussed on the Park’s site, about tying some up in the Iris style with a waking post. Now I have two to do!!!
Nice fly in any color. What is it about the Yellowstone that gets the fish so excited about pink? First the Pink Pookie and now this (nice article here http://www.hatchfinders.com/FlyFishingWithPookie.asp on the history of that fly; great site, by the way).
I came across that site (FF with POOKIE) about two years ago when my son was showing me how to set up my Blog. Anybody who fly fishes with a pocket pet is DOPE!!!
Me and Angelo on the East Walker River, Bridgeport, CA
